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 My name is danah boyd and I'm a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I live in Boston, MA. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.
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avoid diebold: register absenteeAvoid the questionable Diebold machines. Register as an absentee voter so that you can have a receipt of your vote. In many states, this takes quite a while so DO IT NOW. [I'll still love you even if you vote for someone i don't like, but i'll be very angry with you for not voting.] If you’re in California, here’s the form. It takes all of 30 seconds to fill out. 13 comments to avoid diebold: register absentee |
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That link is broken…. here’s the real form:
https://ovr.ss.ca.gov/votereg/OnlineVoterReg
Voting is the opiate of the masses.
I remember the last presidential election when one of the guys got more (popular) votes than the other guy, but so-and-so won anyways.
Hmm.
Voting is the opiate of the masses.
I remember the last presidential election when one of the guys got more (popular) votes than the other guy, but so-and-so won anyways.
Hmm.
Now here’s an idea
apophenia: avoid diebold: register absentee Why didn’t I think of this? Vote absentee and avoid EEVVVIILLLL Diebold. I think in MD, you have to have a ‘better’ reason than ‘Diebold machines are untested and potentially dangerous’….
Are you aware that in most districts absentee ballots are not counted at all unless the vote differential between the top two candidates is less than the number of absentees filed?
Here’s to having your vote not counted.
You’re not avoiding Diebold by absentee voting; Diebold machines count the mail-ins too.
(At least you’ll have a paper record, but that’s not good enough in my book. We need an open and observable vote-counting system.)
I’m certainly NOT arguing that the system is either fair or accountable. But you can’t just avoid the system and expect it to change itself. Never gonna happen.
If the elections are as close this fall as they are projected to be (ah hem California) then expect a recount. And personally, i would like to have a receipt for that moment.
I would love a better system and Sean, i hope you are fighting that fight too.
Bypass Diebold – Go Absentee!!
With all the recent revelations of software insecurities and shady practices going on with Diebold’s voting machines, it’s good to see that alternatives will exist, even if they become widespread in use. Zephoria has noted that if you’d prefer to…
E-voting
Today’s Paul Krugman column: Democracy at Risk. He spells out, to a wider audience than has been keeping tabs thus…
Here’s absentee voting instructions for Michigan, Virginia, Oklahoma, New York, South Dakota, Maine, Louisiana, Minnesota, Illinois (PDF), Massachusets, Florida, West Virginia, Missouri, Alaska, Delaware, New Hampshire, Ohio, and overseas citizens. Also check out the election commission’s FAQ, and Election.com’s list of per-state deadlines.
Now here’s an idea
apophenia: avoid diebold: register absentee Why didn’t I think of this? Vote absentee and avoid EEVVVIILLLL Diebold. I think in MD, you have to have a ‘better’ reason than ‘Diebold machines are untested and potentially dangerous’….
Now here’s an idea
apophenia: avoid diebold: register absentee Why didn’t I think of this? Vote absentee and avoid EEVVVIILLLL Diebold. I think in MD, you have to have a ‘better’ reason than ‘Diebold machines are untested and potentially dangerous’….
Bypass Diebold – Go Absentee!!
With all the recent revelations of software insecurities and shady practices going on with Diebold’s voting machines, it’s good to see that alternatives will exist, even if they become widespread in use. Zephoria has noted that if you’d prefer to…